Cities Skylines II Beach Properties DLC is One of The Worst Reviewed DLC on Steam

On March 25th, Colossal Order released the first DLC for Cities Skylines II, the city builder which failed to capture the essence of its predecessor and has left a sour taste in the mouths of many, which has been further soured by the release of its latest DLC.

Cities Skylines II Beach Properties Flop

With the games state, DLC is probably the last thing fans want after buying an unfinished game, unless you bought the ultimate edition then you probably want some of the DLC you paid £74.99 for but the recently launched Beach Properties Asset Pack has been very poorly received by both parties. Currently on Steam it sits at ‘Overwhelmingly Negative” with just 4% of its 798 user reviews being positive making it probably one of the worst reviewed products on Steam. For reference the main game has a 55% positive rating out of 36,360 reviews.

No, I’ve not bought this DLC, I’ve not bought the game because it’s not worth it so I can’t say first-hand what the problem is, but the reviews tell the full story. To summarise the heaps of bad reviews, the £8.49 price tag just isn’t worth it for what you get. It consists of about 60 new residential assets which are said to be a bit generic and don’t really resemble beach properties. It’s also ironic that they release a beachfront pack when you can’t even really create beaches, I’m still waiting for the Quays that were in the first game.

Colossal Order has to do better here, I know the community are being more critical and in some stretches a bit toxic, but that was brought upon themselves by launching a weaker sequel and not to mention the general gaming community as a whole is getting a lot more frustrated with half-baked games. I’ll admit though, there’s so much potential with the game, and once the mod tools are out of Beta, the modders will get this fixed in no time.

Cities Skylines II is actually on sale right now for £37.79, but I’m not recommending it, it’s not awful but it’s not good.